The Amazon.com pre-order page for the DVD has a bunch of interesting facts about the movie on it (thanks MuggleNet for the heads up). Including: Among the portraits on the shifting staircase, you can clearly see a painting of Anne Boleyn, King Henry VIII’s second wife and the mother of Queen Elizabeth I. Anne Boleyn …read more!

Reader Milja sent us this better quality pic of Harry with the diary in CoS. It’s from the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. Thanks Milja!

I just read the article Rhiannon linked to below about Wicca and Harry Potter and I have to say – it isn’t often that someone sums up the heart of the Paganism/Harry Potter debate in a few words, but it happens in this article, so I want to reprint it here. “It’s not a cult …read more!

Empire Online has a great little interview with Jason Isaacs about his previously confirmed casting as Lucius Malfoy. Isaacs talks about being hated by children the world over, it’s a great read.

More on the DVD! Access Hollywood showed very brief flashes of the unseen footage – Neville in Leg-Lock curse (perhaps now we’ll get to see all the stuff from the book they cut for time? For instance, in the scene where Petunia is taking a picture of Dudley, he’s by the fireplace and in his …read more!

A little more info on the DVD: Available in both Fullscreen and Widescreen I got a little sneak peek of the never-before-seen-footage: I saw flashes of Hagrid and Harry on the tube, Petunia cooking, Petunia taking a picture of Dudley. Quidditch lesson includes original quidditch montage with footage of Harry and Oliver Wood (Biggerstaff fans, …read more!

I’ve fixed the below link on the Huskeiran item – it was going to a general page.

So – I’ve been hot on Huskeiran’s trail all morning…and were it not for a listing of the Scottish isles and all the mail our readers have been sending us, I would be convinced it does not exist. But it does exist, if not on any online maps (hm, unplottable, perhaps? :P) Anyway, the obvious …read more!

The official site has updated their Behind the Scenes section with a ton of interviews and such. Thanks Ana for the heads up!

Thanks to reader Alexander for this link to what looks like a B&W picture of Harry reading Tom Riddle’s Diary in CoS.